The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 |
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... would have worn out the strength of almost any other impulse with which we are acquainted . But this is an impulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discourage- ments 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... would have worn out the strength of almost any other impulse with which we are acquainted . But this is an impulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discourage- ments 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation , with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelligence , that he both sup- plied him with a number of books ...
... acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation , with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelligence , that he both sup- plied him with a number of books ...
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... acquaintance with_the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or ma- son ; " and let not them blush , " says Fuller , speak- ing of this circumstance in his English Worthies , ' with ...
... acquaintance with_the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or ma- son ; " and let not them blush , " says Fuller , speak- ing of this circumstance in his English Worthies , ' with ...
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... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to suffer ...
... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to suffer ...
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... Bowyer , the printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after * See p . 52 . having shewn him something of the nature of the business.
... Bowyer , the printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after * See p . 52 . having shewn him something of the nature of the business.
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Стр. 303 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Стр. 386 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Стр. 83 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Стр. 23 - Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Стр. 223 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Стр. 301 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
Стр. 221 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Стр. 383 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.